Chick-FIl-A Lashes Out on Fake Over the Top Conservative Flyer [Report]

As many of you know by now, Chick-Fil-A is run by a group of Christians. They’re closed on Sunday’s and it’s even been confirmed that they donate money to anti-homosexual organizations. But you better believe that they don’t want you to know it. Recently a flyer on the NYU campus, aimed at finding employees for the campus Chick-Fil-A, went viral due to the fine print at the bottom. As you can see on the above photo, the devil is in the details. As you can imagine, this flyer recently went viral all over the webosphere, creating quite a tizzy. But according to the Huffington Post, Chick-Fil-A has responded by saying that the flyer is a fraud.

The fine print reads: “Please be prepared to discuss your religion, family history, personal relationships etc upon interviewing,” the convincing flyer states. “Chick-Fil-A reserves the right to question, in detail, your sexual relationship history. Anyone living in sin need not apply.”

gothamist.com

After first reading the flyer, I was pretty positive that it had to be a fake. Values or not, no company is going to corner their market by saying that people can’t be living in “sin” if they want to work there. While I did have to chuckle that the somewhat homophobic message is quite consistent with Chick-Fil-A’s philanthropic efforts, I was pretty positive they wouldn’t be this blunt about it.

deathandtaxesblog.com

The flyers were handed out by two people in red blazers, posing as Chick-Fil-A employees. Recently NYU students signed a petition, brandishing over 10,000 signatures to remove this Chick-Fil-A on their campus after hearing about their anti-gay fundraising, but the university has said that they won’t remove the restaurant. We all know why, Chick-Fil-A’s food is too good.

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Dude, the labeling of "anti-gay" by you and other blogs to CFA is really getting old, and doing nothing but spreading misinformation. Likewise, characterizing an entire company as being run by "a group of Christians" is so generalized and trivial I don't even know what to say. First off, what’s wrong with being a Christian? Second of all, who cares? That’s almost like someone saying the U.S. government is run “by a bunch of blacks.”

A company like CFA may give money to organizations which oppose the legalization of homosexual marriage, but that doesn't categorically make the company "anti-gay" (really, where did you learn that phrase, 8th grade journalism class?) anymore than not serving beef makes them “anti beef industry. I admit I’m a conservative (along with many other things, including a sports fan, and, obviously, fried chicken lover) but bashing CFA repeatedly is like me going up to girl scouts selling cookies and calling them “anti baby” (given political donations the Girl Scouts have given to planned parenthood, the largest abortion provider in this country.) In other words, its semantics revolving around a much bigger issues that’s more complex than your or my own narrow political focus may immediately see.

Girl Scouts of America is a non profit that does not support other non profits (Planned Parenthood). Girl Scouts raises money only for the girl troops and for grants given to girls who are in Girl Scouts.

Hate to burst your bubble, anon, but PPFA has taken on hundreds of millions in profits in the past decade alone.

But that's not my point, because as you and I both know, fighting over semantics is the kind of thing which reduces the discourse to 3rd grade levels. My point is that no reasonable Christian is anti-gay. Many may be opposed to the legalization of gay marriage, but anti-gay? Please. If this is how you characterize and entire group of people, you're no different than those who claim Islam is a religion of hate and death, and that Judaism is a religion of sorrow.

I had hopes FFC would be a blog above the kind of simple labels and soundbites that we hear too much of in our politically charged, refuse to even consider the "other" perspective spheres of the internet. I guess I was wrong. Nothing but a bunch of guys trying to drive up the hits, I guess.

Adam, I think that if a for-profit organization chooses to play in the political arena, they are taking a risk in potentially offending guests who do not have their particular point of view.

Personally, when I have a fast-food product, I enjoy the product (or not), but really do not care to hear the political or religious opinions of the person preparing said item.

What organizations a company like CFA supports is very informative, and unnecessarily so from a business perspective. They should not be surprised if some choose to frequent Operators who support organizations that are not hostile to their own political interests.

Adam- Read up on what the majority of CFA representatives say.. They have stated they will Terminate employees who live in sin.. And I get it, you're conservative (you can definitely tell) But make sure you do your research on what a company says or does.. And that's the joy of our country, they can say tons of idiotic things and people can choose not to go there.. Just as the SMART NYU students are doing with the petition.. And FYI, they're not saying that every employee is a complete homophobe, but the "Corporation" is clearly making it known they are